require File.expand_path('../../../../spec_helper', __FILE__) require 'rexml/document' describe "REXML::Attribute#prefix" do it "returns the namespace of the Attribute" do ans = REXML::Attribute.new("ns:someattr", "some_value") out = REXML::Attribute.new("out:something", "some_other_value") ans.prefix.should == "ns" out.prefix.should == "out" end it "returns an empty string for Attributes with no prefixes" do attr = REXML::Attribute.new("foo", "bar") attr.prefix.should == "" end end